{"id":26463,"date":"2024-11-14T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/xml-sitemap-and-its-key-role-in-website-indexing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:33:59","slug":"xml-sitemap-and-its-key-role-in-website-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/en\/news-stories\/xml-sitemap-and-its-key-role-in-website-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"XML Sitemap and Its Key Role in Web Site Indexing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1487086373501{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 140px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583832503348{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Da bi <em>Google<\/em> indeksirao svaku va\u017enu stranicu sajta, potrebno je dati \u0161to bolje smernice i u\u010diniti ih \u0161to lak\u0161im za pronala\u017eenje. Nakon <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/usluge\/izrada-i-dizajn-sajtova\/\">izrade sajta<\/a> <\/span> <em>XML sitemap<\/em> navodi sav sadr\u017eaj i stranice na njmu, osiguravaju\u0107i da ih <em>Google<\/em> sve mo\u017ee prona\u0107i i indeksirati, a tako\u0111e mu poma\u017ee da razume strukturu sajta. <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.rs\/\"><em>Google<\/em><\/a> <\/span>je <em>XML Sitemap<\/em> prvi put uveo 2005. godine.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image source=&#8221;external_link&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577953543333{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; custom_src=&#8221;https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?id=1J0bbsZ9WS7Zcs57ES48tGGD-AWeYMRrg&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577955406255{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Sitemaps<\/em> are known as <em>URL<\/em> inclusion protocols because they advise search engines on what to search for. They are contrary to <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/wordpress-je-najavio-promenu\/\"><em>file robots<span style=\"color: #fd6600;\">.<\/span>txt<\/em> <\/a><\/span>is an exemption protocol because it tells search engines what not to index. Informs search engines about the pages on the site that are available for searching. In case the site does not have <em>an XML sitemap<\/em> , it is not considered a mistake by the search engine, but creating a <em>sitemap<\/em> is recommended because it can improve SEO.   <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584650807729{padding-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span lang=\"SR-LATN-RS\">Why use XML Sitemap?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577955322754{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the end of each row in the <em>sitemap<\/em>, you&#8217;ll notice the date. This tells <em>Google<\/em> when each post was last updated and helps you with <em>SEO<\/em>, as you want <em>Google<\/em> to crawl your updated content as soon as possible. When the date changes, <em>Google<\/em> receives information that there is new content that can be searched and indexed. In addition, <em>the sitemap<\/em> lists all the URLs from the site. And that includes pages that search engines wouldn&#8217;t be able to find without a map. It gives search engines signals as to which pages to prioritize and thus an indexing advantage. A tag can also be added that says which pages are the most important. <em>Google<\/em> bots will thus focus on priority pages first.      <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image source=&#8221;external_link&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577953568571{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; custom_src=&#8221;https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?id=1rgH0epAtO6U9697jc442RYGDr9KYv8aS&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577955462707{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can also add two more optional tags that will pass additional data to search engines to help them crawl your <em>site<\/em> . The first, &#8220;lastmod&#8221; notifies them when the page was last changed. The second &#8220;changefreq&#8221; tells you how often the page will be changed.  <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583834242857{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span lang=\"SR-LATN-RS\">Adding an XML Sitemap to a Site<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577955516608{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adding <em>an XML sitemap<\/em> can be helpful to check if all the pages on your site have been indexed by <em>Google<\/em> . If there is a large difference in the number of &#8220;submitted&#8221; and &#8220;indexed&#8221; pages on a particular <em>sitemap<\/em>, you should check to see if there is any error on the site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you have a very large site, sometimes you need to split the sitemap. A single <em>XML sitemap<\/em> is limited to 50,000 URLs. In the case of large sites that exceed this number of pages, another <em>XML sitemap<\/em> is added. For smaller sites, you can use <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><em><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/xmlsitemapgenerator.org\/\">XML <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\">Sitemap<\/span> Generator.<\/a><\/em><\/span> It allows you to define how often your pages are updated and which modified date is used. Once the <em>sitemap<\/em> has been created, you need to <em>upload<\/em> it to the <em>root<\/em> domain of the site. If you have a website built in <em>WordPress<\/em>, <em><span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/yoast-mocni-seo-alat\/\">the Yoast<\/a> <\/span>plugin<\/em> makes this job very easy.     <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583834248902{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span lang=\"SR-LATN-RS\">What to include in an XML sitemap?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577952311714{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Include in your <em>sitemap<\/em> pages (which include posts) that are important to the site. These are pages that have high-quality content and are more likely to bring more organic traffic to the site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Exclude pages with duplicate content, as well as those with &#8220;thin content.&#8221; Make sure that your <em>XML sitemap<\/em> contains a field that shows the time it was last modified, a value that gives <em>Google<\/em> information about when the page was last modified. This is useful in cases where you want <em>Google<\/em> to re-index some pages of your site.  <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577955751877{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>An XML sitemap<\/em> is useful for any website. 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